Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Quote by Samuel Butler
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
- I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
- Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon.
- It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
- Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Best Quotes
- Beauty of dreams is manifested by accepting growth, living day by day to see them come true is manifested by consistency and living in the light of their reality is manifested by patience.
- His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- All good things are wild, and free.
- If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
- Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
- I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
- Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.